Today
We have $700,000 in super – can we buy investment property with it?
If you want to add a geared investment property to your retirement savings, here’s what you must think about.
- John Wasiliev
This Month
615,000 customers locked out of super accounts by Google fail
The super fund has blamed Google’s cloud computing services for the prolonged outage.
- Lucy Dean
Second-largest super fund blacklists thermal coal investments
Superannuation giant Australian Retirement Trust will stop investing in most thermal coal companies from July as part of a plan to hit net zero emissions across its portfolio by 2050.
- Lewis Jackson
We retired overseas but came back. What should we do with our money?
This couple may not be able to reopen their super accounts, but there are other tax-effective opportunities.
- John Wasiliev
April
I lost $2.5m of my super to scammers
Five victims outline how their funds were taken by sophisticated impersonation fraudsters and why they feel abandoned by their banks.
- Duncan Hughes
Why it’s worth selling your investment property before you retire
Making the most of higher superannuation caps can boost your retirement coffers just when you need it the most.
- Kelly Kennedy
Future Fund vindicated by reality of ‘sticky’ inflation
A sharemarket rally, spurred by hopes of rate cuts, has lifted the Future Fund’s portfolio, but it says investors have not adjusted to a higher-for-longer scenario.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Woodside looks inward after climate gambit defeated
The oil and gas producer felt the force of big super and green investors when it took a transition plan to shareholders. Now it has no choice but to do better on emissions.
- Anthony Macdonald
Big super splits on performance test reforms
Labor announced it was reviewing the test after several funds said the current rules stopped them investing in the “nation building” initiatives the government wanted them to bankroll.
- Hannah Wootton
Start-ups, dentists drain retirement savings in ‘super scam’
The value of super withdrawn for dental treatments nationally jumped 373 per cent to $313 million from 2019 to 2023, and Labor has warned of a potential crackdown.
- Hannah Wootton
Why more Australians are choosing semi-retirement
Fusing the parts of work you still enjoy with hobbies, travel and passion projects is the dream for many. Here’s how to make a go of it
- Michelle Bowes
Macquarie, ANZ and Canva CEOs help power Australia’s India push
Governments hope to prevent another false dawn in bilateral trade and investment by getting business to work on policy.
- James Eyers
- Exclusive
- Investment banking
Future Fund’s Alicia Gregory moves to $257b US asset manager
The deputy chief investment officer will join Blue Owl Capital, the US investor courting Australia’s superannuation market for over a year now.
- Aaron Weinman
‘Stunning’ equity rallies lift super fund returns
Superannuation funds are expected to end the financial year “a lot better than expected”, new data shows, with returns already nearly surpassing last year’s results.
- Hannah Wootton
Labor will tax super savers twice under proposed ‘wealth tax’: Taylor
Double taxation was “a natural consequence” of Labor’s plan to tax unrealised gains under its proposed tax increase on super balances over $3 million, the shadow treasurer said.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The solution to the bank lending pull-back may be in the mirror
Simple bank loans are becoming like luxury goods as regulators step in. The $1 trillion private capital giant Apollo thinks you can be part of the solution.
- James Thomson
Savers with $3m-plus super could pay double tax on earnings
Labor’s plan to increase the tax paid on earnings for super accounts with more than $3 million could sting savers twice, experts have suggested.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
Taxing judges’ pensions bad for independence, women
A former Federal Court chief justice says the reforms were likely unconstitutional and would stymie efforts to improve the number of women on the bench.
- Hannah Wootton
Super tax changes to ‘cut off lifeblood’ of local business
Funds management veteran Geoff Wilson says Labor’s controversial plan to tax unrealised gains on big superannuation accounts will discourage investment in local firms.
- Hannah Wootton
The biggest market risk you’re probably not thinking about
Insight Investment’s Francesca Fornasari says investors cannot ignore currency markets, especially Australians who are sending billions of dollars overseas.
- Jonathan Shapiro